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They're surround sound though right? I don't really have the space or desire for more than 2 speakers I don't think!

Hi, thanks for your reply! The 443's look great but I don't think they're available in the uk. You're right about the 623's too, look great but just too pricey!

These are for my PC - to be driven off the motherboard. I need them for gaming (I don't see this being a big factor though) and listening to music. Sometimes I like to crank the volume up quite high for music, so volume with punchy bass and clarity would be nice. Budget is around £75 but will...

It's brand new!

Didn't work, and it would only drive one monitor :) Oh well! Guess I'll have to deal with the shitty performance. I doubt it's all ram related anyway ... even loading windows takes an age.

I'm definitely not gaming! So for general office tasks the 8750 is pointless pretty much? What's the best way to disable it? (No bios option). Can I just disable it in device manager? Cheers!

I see, that explanation actually helps a lot thanks! If I disabled the 8750m would that free up a gb of ram, and let the built in do all the work? (My old machine was a desktop with an i5, 4gb of ram and no discrete card. It ran fine although I don't know the the allocaiton was 512mb or 1024mb).

It'll be running 2 monitors at 1920x1080 if that changes your suggestion from 64mb minimum? In the power management thing (via CCC) it's set so that when plugged in it should maximise performance for every application including chrome. So that means everything should run off the 8750m? (Apart...

I can't, it's partially a works machine (supplied but limited support) and I doubt the bespoke software would work outside of windows environment. What would happen if I lowered the onboard graphics to say the lowest (32mb), would that in theory free up ~400mb for useage? How would it impact...

Surely even getting it up to 3gb would be an improvement over 2.2? It's sitting at 65% usage on idle currently!

Like I said, I'm 99% sure I can't turn off the integrated (Unless I disable it in device manager!). I can reduce the memory allocation down from 512mb to 32mb. I think this is the option I need most? As long as it won't negatively affect anything ...

The only option I saw in bios was video memory, and it was set to 512mb which is a bit short of the 1845 being used! I can drop this to 32. If I do set this to 32mb, will it be ok because anything that requires more it will just switch to the 8750m and it's 1gb dedicated? Stuck on 32bit due...

Shiney new laptop ... hp elitebook 840 g1 with an i7-4600u, 8750m & 4gb of ram. Now It's running dog slow and I think it might be the ram? It's showing as 2.20 Gb useable, and resource manager shows 1845MB hardware reserved. My guess is that it's the i7 graphics hogging this for it's own ram...

Is it still under warranty? Are you confident taking a few bits off to get access? Failing that, turn it off let it cool and use compressed air?

Dust builds up. Thermal paste degrades. Won't take long to investigate :)